Green Artifact
Green Artifact, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo of the Marin Fountain in Berkeley taken at sunset with my fisheye lens. I was surprised…
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January 18, 2009
Start Scrolling
Get ready to start scrolling! Tilt your head. Dudes and Dudettes, this panorama of the Golden Gate was stitched together from ten RAW files using the Photoshop CS3 Extended Photomerge…
January 14, 2009
Watchmaker Dial
Starting with my photo of the Westfield Mall dome, I stayed up most of the night and worked the image in Photoshop. A trick with this kind of thing is…
January 12, 2009
Cruel & Unusual Lens
If your Dad is a photographer, and he owns a fisheye lens, sooner or later he's going to stick it three inches from your nose and do his worst. Adults…
January 6, 2009
Cathedral of Light
The Cathedral of Christ the Light was built over the past three years to replace an earthquake-damaged structure. Designed by the famous modernist architectiure firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill,…
December 21, 2008
Speaking in Tongues
Speaking in Tongues, photo by Harold Davis. Katie Rose sometimes explores by sticking her tongue out, for all the world like a baby snake tasting her world. In the unfamiliar…
December 14, 2008
Flowers on Ebony and Ivory
I've been photographing flowers for transparency the last few days, and processing them to appear on black and white backgrounds. The trick here is lighting, photography, and Photoshop: so three…
December 13, 2008
Calling Alice
Alice followed the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and found a weird world of inexplicable twists and turns. Besides Alice and Lewis Carroll, this twisting photocomposition is in part…
December 8, 2008
Magic Carpet Ride
Magic Carpet Ride, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a variation on a theme via Photoshop, with the shadow of wicker on a Persian rug the…
November 29, 2008
Thanks for All the Fish
The original version of these images was a digital macro shot of a marble, digitally painted in Photoshop. At the request of a client, I prepared these variations. View this…
November 27, 2008
Wicker
Wicker, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: Sunlight streaming through the bedroom window, the shadow of wicker on a Persian rug. To me, the effect looks…
November 22, 2008
Nicky’s Birthday
Nicky on His Seventh Birthday, photo by Harold Davis. Nicky is seven, and it's hard to understand where the time has gone. I remember him the day he was born,…
November 22, 2008
Kids, Family, and (other) Weird Things
Kids, Family, and (other) Weird Things, photo by Harold Davis. This slide goes with a presentation, Less is More: Photographing Kids, Family, and Weird Things, I'll be giving Monday, November…
November 21, 2008
Abstractions
Casserole Reflections I, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Starting from an already fairly experimental image, like the view of reflections on the stove top that is the…
November 18, 2008
Stove Top
Stove Top, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. There's a bit of magic in any kitchen. Food is life. Looking in the reflections on this stove top I…
November 16, 2008
Seizing the Day
Amy wrote, "I was impressed with your photos and one of your flowers in particular helped inspire a design for my tattoo." She sent me a link to a photo…
November 12, 2008
Do Over
As I've noted, being digital means you never have to be done. When I originally post-processed the images in this story, I was a little drunk with the power of…
November 9, 2008
Four Arms and Two Heads
Four Arms and Two Heads, photo by Harold Davis. When Mathew and Julian horse around it's hard to resist a smile. Even though chaos often ensues.
November 3, 2008